Studying to be a programmer
Feb. 22nd, 2018 09:42 amI studied physics in university, and I only had 3 programming related courses: numeric methods in Fortran, Operating systems, and CS 101 (finite automata, Turing machines, etc).
During last ~19 years working as a programmer full time I learned some tricks of our trade. But now I am thinking what would it take me today, if I was 18 y.o. and if I wanted to get just enough CS theory to understand how things work without formally studying CS.
I think just four books is enough: Aho&Ulman (compilers), Kormen(algorithms), Henessy&Patterson(hardware), and Tannenbaum (OS and networks). Am I missing something?
Upd: based on comments: Mao(crypto), Brooks(projects)
During last ~19 years working as a programmer full time I learned some tricks of our trade. But now I am thinking what would it take me today, if I was 18 y.o. and if I wanted to get just enough CS theory to understand how things work without formally studying CS.
I think just four books is enough: Aho&Ulman (compilers), Kormen(algorithms), Henessy&Patterson(hardware), and Tannenbaum (OS and networks). Am I missing something?
Upd: based on comments: Mao(crypto), Brooks(projects)